Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that is left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.
ANATOLE FRANCEIt is not customary to love what one has
More Anatole France Quotes
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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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He would not stoop even to pick up the old manuscript I am going to seek with so much trouble and fatigue. And in truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
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To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Science neither cares to please nor to displease. She is inhuman. It is not science but poetry that charms and consoles. And that is why poetry is more necessary than science.
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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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